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Coming Next Week: Organizing Your Life Blog Hop
I am so excited to share some news! I’ll be participating in the Joyful Keeper’s 5 days of Organizing your Life Blog Hop along with 5 other fabulous bloggers. Read on for more information! ~Lisa...
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Organizing Your Spiritual Life – Organizing Your Life Blog Hop
In this season of life it has been a real challenge to get consistent one on one time with Jesus. I have good intentions to wake up early for that piece of illusive quiet. Mostly I end up oversleeping...
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Encouraging Scriptures for the Homeschool Mom
When your homeschooling goes haywire and stress begins to build, your best bet for sanity is to stop, drop and meditate on God’s Word! For the most part, Homeschooling is as natural for our...
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Ecclesiastes from a Homeschool Mom’s Perspective
Here’s a homeschool mom’s take on Ecclesiastes 3 : 1-8 There is a time for everything, and a season for every aspect of life under heaven: a time to pull back and a time to get involved a time to...
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What is a Sabbath Week?
We home school year around and don’t normally follow the same schedule that our local school district does in regards to time off. I first heard about Sabbath Week about a year ago from Renita...
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Scriptures to Help Cultivate Thankfulness!
It is the season of thanks. Here are some scriptures to help you focus your heart on being thankful everyday and not just once a year! Psalm 9:1 I will praise You,O Lord, with my whole heart; I...
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Keeping Mom Healthy – Easy Tips and Tricks
Recently my plans for our Thanksgiving Break were thwarted by an invading virus making the rounds. Its’ main target was none other than me…Mom! We all know how tough it is when Mom gets sick and...
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Merry Christmas from Tales of a Homeschool Family
Sometime ago I received this reworking of 1 Corinthians from Jan, a fellow homeschool mom, bee keeper and friend. It really touched me and I wanted to share it with you all. Merry Christmas to my...
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Compiling a Top 10 list of the most read posts at the end of a given year is generally a fun thing for a blogger. Not only does it show where interests lie but may even help steer the future of that...
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What I Learned from Our First Family Sabbath
We’ve been wanting to purposefully set aside a day of rest for quite some time. For a variety of reasons, we never seemed to do it. Last week we made a conscious effort to set aside a purposeful...
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When a Teacher Wounds Your Spirit….
It’s no secret that I barely made it through Geometry in high school. At that time it was enough to get me admitted to my college of choice and that was good enough! The other day, while I was...
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The Day I Almost Threw in the Towel…..
It’s not uncommon to hit rough patches in the homeschool journey. In my 11 years as a homeschool mom I’ve experienced my share of hurdles. I expect there to be bumps and twists and turns. I expect...
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The Quest for Quiet!
:::Squeaky dryer needing oil::: ::: Water distiller running::: :::Cats meowing::: :::Children arguing::: Living in the worlds’ noisiest home, there are times I C-R-A-V-E quiet! Don’t get me...
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I AM Living in My Dream House!
Many years ago before I had children, I enjoyed spending time with a growing family of 6. This family’s house was in the wrong part of town and looked run down from the outside. The interior was a...
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12 Things I’ve Learned in 12 Years of Homeschooling
As we embarq on our 12th year of homeschooling, allow me to take a minute to look back and share some important lessons learned on the journey. 1. First and foremost, God’s touch is necessary on...
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“How to Have Fun When Life is Anything But….”
All summer long my newsfeed has been filled with family and friends jet-setting here, there and everywhere. For us, this summer has been a total bust. Due to circumstances, there were no family...
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Being Kind Counts Challenge – Teaching Children to Get Along
Today is the one year “blogiversary” for Tales of a Homeschool Family. What better way to celebrate than to pay it forward! Accepting the Being Kind Counts Challenge, my children and I have decided...
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Why Homeschool?
Why homeschool? I can give you a couple dozen reasons why you should homeschool. We could debate upon test scores, the myths of socialization and more. Instead, I’d like to use an example from YOUR...
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Fall: the Season of Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot!
A few months ago, I had the pleasure of reviewing an Olive Seeds Kit from Holy Land Seeds. What a great experience! I’m equally excited to share this guest post from Doron ShorMalca, the owner and...
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Homeschooling and Hot Flashes
“Ma’am, according to these test results, you’re normal.” Does “normal” go from room temperature to solar flare in under 60 seconds? Does “normal” break out in pimples well into their 40′s? Does...
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